Certifications for SAP HANA on Google Cloud

SAP certifies a wide range of Google Cloud machine types for use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud. With each machine type, you can have different options for the operating system, CPU platform, block storage, and so forth. SAP also certifies Compute Engine instances for SAP HANA dynamic tiering.

Certified machine types for SAP HANA

For SAP HANA, SAP certifies only a subset of the machine types that are available from Google Cloud.

From the machine types that SAP certifies for use with SAP HANA, you can choose to create virtual machine (VM) instances or bare metal instances.

Custom configurations of the general-purpose n1- and n2-highmem machine types are also certified by SAP. For more information, see Certified custom machine types for SAP HANA.

For the operating systems that are certified for use with HANA on each machine type, see Certified operating systems for SAP HANA.

Some machine types are not available in all Google Cloud regions. To check the regional availability of a Compute Engine machine type, see Available regions & zones.

SAP lists the certified machine types for SAP HANA in the Certified and supported SAP HANA hardware directory.

For more information about different Compute Engine machine types and their use cases, see machine types.

Certified Compute Engine machine types for SAP HANA

The following table shows Compute Engine machine types that are certified by SAP for SAP HANA:

The following table shows all of the Google Cloud machine types that are certified by SAP for production use of SAP HANA.

The table does not include the machine types that SAP certifies for SAP Business One on SAP HANA. For the machine types that SAP certifies for SAP HANA with SAP Business One, see Certified SAP applications on Google Cloud.

Machine types vCPUs Memory Operating system CPU platform Application type Notes
N1 high-memory, general-purpose machine types
n1-highmem-32 32 208 GB RHEL, SUSE
 Intel Broadwell OLAP or OLTP Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk or, for scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n1-highmem-64 64 416 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Broadwell OLAP or OLTP Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk or, for scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n1-highmem-96 96 624 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Skylake OLAP or OLTP Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk or, for scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
N2 high-memory, general-purpose machine types
n2-highmem-32 32 256 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake,
Intel Cascade Lake		 OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n2-highmem-48 48 384 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake,
Intel Cascade Lake		 OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n2-highmem-64 64 512 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake,
Intel Cascade Lake		 OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n2-highmem-80 80 640 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake,
Intel Cascade Lake		 OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n2-highmem-96 96 768 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
n2-highmem-128 128 864 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
C3 general-purpose machine types
c3-standard-44 44 176 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c3-highmem-44 44 352 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c3-highmem-88 88 704 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c3-highmem-176 176 1,408 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
C3 general-purpose bare metal machine types
c3-highmem-192-metal 192 1,536 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
C4 general-purpose machine types
c4-highmem-32 32 248 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c4-highmem-48 48 372 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c4-highmem-96 96 744 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c4-highmem-144 144 1,116 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme or Hyperdisk Balanced
c4-highmem-192 192 1,488 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
c4-highmem-288 288 2,232 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme or Hyperdisk Balanced
c4-highmem-288-metal 288 2,232 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme or Hyperdisk Balanced
M1 memory-optimized machine types
m1-megamem-96 96 1,433 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Skylake OLAP or OLTP OLAP: scale up, and scale out up to 16 nodes.
OLTP: scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or, for OLTP scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m1-ultramem-40 40 961 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Broadwell OLTP only Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m1-ultramem-80 80 1,922 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Broadwell OLTP only Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m1-ultramem-160 160 3,844 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Broadwell OLAP or OLTP 2 TB OLAP workloads certified for scale up and scale out up to 16 nodes. Up to 4 TB OLAP workloads supported with workload based sizing.
OLTP workloads certified for scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or, for OLTP scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
M2 memory-optimized machine types
m2-megamem-416 416 5,888 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Cascade Lake OLAP or OLTP OLAP workloads certified for scale up and scale out up to 16 nodes.
OLTP workloads are certified for scale up, and scale out up to 4 nodes.
Certification for OLTP scale out includes SAP S/4HANA.
For scale out with S/4HANA, see SAP Note 2408419.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or, for scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m2-ultramem-208 208 5,888 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Cascade Lake OLTP only Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m2-ultramem-416 416 11,776 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Cascade Lake-SP OLAP or OLTP OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale up, and scale out up to 16 nodes.
OLTP workloads are certified for scale up, and scale out up to 4 nodes.
Certification for OLTP scale out includes SAP S/4HANA.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or, for scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
For scale out with S/4HANA, see SAP Note 2408419.
m2-hypermem-416 416 8,832 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Cascade Lake OLAP or OLTP OLAP workloads certified for scale up in single node.
OLTP workloads are certified for scale up, and scale out up to 4 nodes.
Certification for OLTP scale out includes SAP S/4HANA.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or, for scale up only, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
For scale out with S/4HANA, see SAP Note 2408419.
M3 memory-optimized machine types
m3-ultramem-32 32 976 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLTP only Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m3-ultramem-64 64 1,952 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLTP only Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m3-ultramem-128 128 3,904 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLAP or OLTP

OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale-up, and scale-out up to 8 nodes. OLTP workloads are certified for scale up.

Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m3-megamem-64 64 976 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes).
m3-megamem-128 128 1,952 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake OLAP or OLTP Scale up, and scale out up to 16 nodes.
Block storage: Compute Engine Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced, or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (the Premium or Extreme service level for the SAP HANA data and log volumes) (scale-up only).
M4 memory-optimized machine types
m4-megamem-28 28 372 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-megamem-56 56 744 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-megamem-112 112 1,488 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-megamem-224 224 2,976 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up, or scale-out up to 8 nodes
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-ultramem-56 56 1,488 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-ultramem-112 112 2,976 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-ultramem-224 224 5,952 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-hypermem-16 16 248 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-hypermem-32 32 496 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4-hypermem-64 64 992 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale-up and scale-out up to 8 nodes. OLTP workloads are certified for scale up.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
M4N memory-optimized machine types
m4n-megamem-28 28 372 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Extreme.
m4n-megamem-56 56 744 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Extreme.
m4n-megamem-112 112 1,488 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4n-megamem-224 224 2,976 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up, or scale-out up to 8 nodes
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4n-ultramem-56 56 1,488 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4n-ultramem-112 112 2,976 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4n-ultramem-224 224 5,952 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced.
m4n-hypermem-16 16 248 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Extreme.
m4n-hypermem-32 32 496 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale up only.
Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Extreme.
m4n-hypermem-64 64 992 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Emerald Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale-up and scale-out up to 8 nodes. OLTP workloads are certified for scale up.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Extreme.
X4 memory-optimized bare metal machine types
x4-480-6t-metal 480 6,144 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale-up and scale-out up to 8 nodes. OLTP workloads are certified for scale up.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x4-480-8t-metal 480 8,192 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale-up and scale-out up to 8 nodes. OLTP workloads are certified for scale-up and scale-out up to 4 nodes.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x4-960-12t-metal 960 12,288 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLAP workloads are certified with workload-based sizing for scale-up and scale-out up to 8 nodes. OLTP workloads are certified for scale-up, and scale-out up to 4 nodes.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x4-960-16t-metal 960 16,384 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLTP workloads are certified for scale out up to 4 nodes, and scale up.

OLAP workloads are certified for scale out up to 8 nodes, and scale up.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x4-1440-24t-metal 1,440 24,576 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLTP workloads are certified for scale out up to 4 nodes, and scale up.

OLAP workloads are certified for scale out up to 8 nodes, and scale up.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x4-1920-32t-metal 1,920 32,768 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Sapphire Rapids OLAP or OLTP

OLTP workloads are certified for scale out up to 4 nodes, and scale up.

OLAP workloads are certified for scale out up to 8 nodes, and scale up.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
X5 memory-optimized bare metal machine types
x5-688-12T-metal 688 12,288 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale-up only.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x5-688-16T-metal 688 16,384 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale-up only.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x5-1376-24T-metal 1,376 24,576 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale-up only.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x5-1376-32T-metal 1,376 32,768 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale-up only.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced
x5-2064-48T-metal Note 2,064 49,152 GB RHEL, SUSE Intel Granite Rapids OLAP or OLTP Scale-up only.

Block storage: Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Balanced

Note: The x5-2064-48T-metal machine type is available for use with SAP workloads that SAP manages under the RISE with SAP program.

Certified custom machine types for SAP HANA

The following table shows the Compute Engine custom machine types that are certified by SAP for production use of SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

SAP certifies only a subset of the custom machine types that are available from Compute Engine.

Custom machine types are subject to customization rules that are defined by Compute Engine. The rules differ depending on which machine type you are customizing. For complete customization rules, see Create a VM with a custom machine type.

Base machine type vCPUs Memory (GB) Operating system CPU platforms
n1-highmem A number of vCPUs from 32 to 64 that is evenly divisible by 2. 6.5 GB for each vCPU RHEL, SUSE Intel Broadwell
n2-highmem (Scale up only) On Intel Ice Lake, a number of vCPUs from 32 to 80 that is evenly divisible by 4.
On Intel Cascade Lake, a number of vCPUs from 32 to 80 that is evenly divisible by 4.		 Up to 8 GB per vCPU RHEL, SUSE Intel Ice Lake,
Intel Cascade Lake

If the custom machine types that are available from Compute Engine don't meet the memory requirements of your SAP HANA system, then additional options are available through partners that provide managed services. To find a partner that offers managed services for SAP HANA, contact Google Cloud sales.

Certified operating systems for SAP HANA

The following table shows the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating systems that are certified by SAP for production use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

Except where noted in the table, each operating system is supported with SAP HANA on all certified Compute Engine machine types.

For information about the current support status of each operating system and which operating systems are available from Google Cloud, see Operating system support for SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

For information from SAP about which operating systems SAP supports with SAP HANA on Google Cloud, go to Certified and supported SAP HANA hardware directory, click the required machine type, and then see Operating System.

For SLES 15 SP5 and earlier, SAP HANA table load performance can be slower because of a Linux kernel limitation that is optimized in SLES 15 SP6 and later. For more information, see the SUSE knowledge base article High system CPU during HANA table load in SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 and earlier.

The following table doesn't include the following:

  • Certified operating system versions that are no longer in mainstream support.
  • Operating system versions that are not specific to SAP.
Operating system Version Supported SAP-certified machine types for use with SAP HANA Minimum kernel version
RHEL for SAP 10.0 All 6.12.0-55.73.1.el10_0.x86_64 for all SAP-certified machine types
9.6 Note All except X5 5.14.0-570.16.1.el9_6, for X4, C3-metal, and C4-metal
9.4 Note All except X5 5.14.0-427.70.1.el9_4, for X4, C3-metal, and C4-metal
9.2 Note All except X4, X5, C3-metal, C4-metal N/A
9.0 Note All except X4, X5, C3-metal, C4-metal N/A
8.10 All except X5 4.18.0-553.58.1.el8_10, for X4, C3-metal, and C4-metal
8.8 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, C4-metal N/A
8.6 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, C4-metal N/A
8.4 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, M4, C4-metal N/A
8.2 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, M4, C4-metal N/A
8.1 All except X4, X5, C3, M3, M4, C4-metal N/A
7.9 All except C4, X4, X5, C3-metal, M4 N/A
SLES for SAP 16 All 6.12.0-16000.35.1, for X4, X5, C3-metal, and C4-metal
15 SP7 All 6.4.0-150700.53.3, for X4, X5, C3-metal, and C4-metal
15 SP6 All except X5 6.4.0-150600.23.38.1, for X4, C3-metal, and C4-metal
15 SP5 All except X5 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1, for X4, C3-metal, and C4-metal
15 SP4 All except X5 5.14.21-150400.24.161.1, for X4, C3-metal, and C4-metal
15 SP3 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, C4-metal N/A
15 SP2 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, M4, C4-metal N/A
12 SP5 All except X4, X5, C3-metal, C4-metal N/A

Persistent disk storage for SAP HANA

For persistent block storage, you can attach Persistent Disk or Hyperdisk volumes when you create your compute instances or add them to your compute instances later.

Supported disk types

Compute Engine offers different Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk types based on either solid-state drive (SSD) technology or standard hard disk drive (HDD) technology. Each type has different performance characteristics. Google Cloud manages the underlying hardware of the disks to ensure data redundancy and to optimize performance.

For performance reasons, the SAP HANA /hana/data and /hana/log volumes require SSD-based persistent storage disks. SSD-based Hyperdisk and Persistent Disk types that are certified by SAP for use with SAP HANA include the following:

  • Hyperdisk types: Hyperdisk Extreme (hyperdisk-extreme) and Hyperdisk Balanced (hyperdisk-balanced)

    • Hyperdisk Extreme provides higher maximum IOPS and throughput options than SSD-based Persistent Disk types.
    • For a list of the machine types that support Hyperdisk Extreme and Hyperdisk Balanced, see Machine type support.
    • On Compute Engine bare metal instances such as X4, use Hyperdisk Balanced as the recommended disk for hosting the following volumes:
      • The boot volume.
      • The /usr/sap volume.
      • The /hana/shared volume, if you're hosting it on its own disk.
      • The /hanabackup volume, if you're saving your backups on a disk.
    • For Hyperdisk Extreme, you select the performance you need by provisioning IOPS, which also determines your throughput. For more information, see Size and performance limits for Hyperdisk Extreme.
    • For Hyperdisk Balanced, you select the performance you need by provisioning IOPS and throughput. For more information, see Size and performance limits for Hyperdisk Balanced.
    • You can use Hyperdisk Extreme for the /hana/data and /hana/log volumes when you require the highest performance.
    • To enable the best performance from Hyperdisk Extreme for SAP HANA, update your SAP HANA system properties as recommended in Hyperdisk performance.

  • Persistent Disk types: Legacy machine types support Persistent Disk types. Google Cloud recommends that you use the latest machine types and Hyperdisk volumes for running performant SAP HANA workloads.

    Click to expand and view information about supported Persistent Disk types

    • Supported Persistent Disk types include the following: Balanced (pd-balanced), Performance or SSD (pd-ssd), and Extreme (pd-extreme).
    • These disk types provide cost-effective and reliable block storage.
    • Performance (SSD) Persistent Disk (pd-ssd) provides higher performance than Balanced Persistent Disk (pd-balanced).
    • Use Balanced Persistent Disk as the recommended disk for hosting the following volumes:
      • Boot volume of the compute instance.
      • The /usr/sap volume.
      • The /hana/shared volume, if you're hosting it on its own disk.
      • The /hanabackup volume, if you save your backups to a disk. If you want to reduce the backup costs, then you can use a Standard HDD Persistent Disk (pd-standard). Balanced Persistent Disk provides faster backups than Standard HDD Persistent Disk. While selecting the disk, make sure that your machine type supports the disk type.
    • Balanced and Performance (SSD) Persistent Disk support PD Async Replication. You can use this feature for cross-region active-passive disaster recovery. For more information, see Disaster recovery using PD Async Replication.
    • While Extreme Persistent Disk (pd-extreme) is certified for use with SAP HANA, we recommend that you instead use Hyperdisk Extreme (hyperdisk-extreme), which provides greater performance. If you want to use Extreme Persistent Disk, then make sure to provision the disks in accordance with the information in Minimum sizes for SSD-based Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes.
    • For information about Persistent Disk performance, see Persistent Disk performance overview and Optimize Persistent Disk performance

For more information about persistent disk storage for SAP HANA on Google Cloud, see Persistent disk storage. For more information about Hyperdisk types, their performance characteristics, and how to work with them, see the following documentation:

Minimum sizes and performance for Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes

When you size certain Compute Engine SSD-based Persistent Disk or Hyperdisk volumes for SAP HANA, you need to account for not only the storage requirements of your SAP HANA instance, but also for the performance of the disk.

The performance of Hyperdisk is not affected by disk size. Its performance is determined by the IOPS or throughput that you provision. For information about the performance of Hyperdisk for SAP HANA workloads, see Hyperdisk performance.

For information about Persistent Disk based storage configurations for SAP HANA, see Disk sizes for legacy machine and disk types.

Use the following widget to view Hyperdisk based storage configurations for SAP-certified machine types that support usage of Hyperdisk Balanced. Choose the configuration that best fits your needs. The following disk configurations are intended for scale-up systems. For scale-out systems, all disk calculations remain the same except for /hana/shared, which is subject to the number of worker nodes you deploy. For every four worker hosts, increase the disk size by 1 x memory, or 1 TB, whichever is smaller.

  • The widget presents the following configurations: Simple, Advanced, and Performance. All of these configurations are designed to help you meet the SAP HANA minimum storage and performance requirements.
  • These configurations differ in the following aspects: performance, deployment complexity, and cost.
  • Simple and Advanced cost nearly the same, with Advanced offering better performance because it uses striped disks to host the /hana/data volume. However, using striped disks adds to the complexity of your deployment and maintenance operations.
  • Performance is a disk configuration that helps you provision maximum performance without the complexity of maintaining striped disks. This is achieved by provisioning disks with high IOPS and throughput. Consequently, this configuration is the costliest in most cases.
  • The number of disks shown in the Advanced disk configuration is the minimum number of disks required to help you achieve a performant disk configuration. While you can add more disks to achieve the required performance, doing so increases the costs you incur.

Disk sizes for legacy machine and disk types

Within limits, the performance of an SSD or Balanced Persistent Disk volume increases as the size of the disk and the number of vCPUs increase. If an SSD or Balanced Persistent Disk volume is too small, then it might not provide the performance that SAP HANA requires.

A 550 GB SSD or a 943 GB Balanced Persistent Disk volume provides a sustained throughput of 400 MB per second for reads and writes, which is the minimum. For general information about Persistent Disk performance, see Persistent Disk performance overview.

The following table shows the minimum recommended sizes for SSD Persistent Disk (pd-ssd) and Balanced Persistent Disk (pd-balanced) to meet SAP HANA performance requirements in a production environment for each Compute Engine machine type that is certified for use with SAP HANA.

The sizes in the following table assume that you are using a separate disk for each of the following volumes: /hana/data, /hana/log, /hana/shared, and /usr/sap volumes. This table shows disk sizes for SAP-certified machine types that support using only Persistent Disk. For information about disk configuration for SAP-certified machine types that can use Hyperdisk, see Minimum sizes for SSD-based Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes.

Balanced Persistent Disk

If you want to use more than one Balanced Persistent Disk volume to host your /hana/data volume, then make sure to equally divide the size value given in the "/hana/data size (GB)" column among the disk volumes that you provision.

Compute Engine machine type /hana/data size (GB) /hana/log size (GB) /hana/shared size (GB) /usr/sap size (GB) Total size (GB)
n1-highmem-32 599 104 208 32 943
n1-highmem-64 499 208 416 32 1,155
n1-highmem-96 748 312 624 32 1,716
n2-highmem-32 527 128 256 32 943
n2-highmem-48 460 192 384 32 1,068
n2-highmem-64 614 256 512 32 1,414
n2-highmem-80 768 320 640 32 1,760
n2-highmem-96 921 384 768 32 2,105
n2-highmem-128 1,036 432 864 32 2,364

SSD Persistent Disk

If you want to use more than one SSD Persistent Disk volume to host your /hana/data volume, then make sure to equally divide the size value provided in the "/hana/data size (GB)" column among the disk volumes that you provision.

Compute Engine machine type /hana/data size (GB) /hana/log size (GB) /hana/shared size (GB) /usr/sap size (GB) Total size (GB)
n1-highmem-32 249 104 208 32 593
n1-highmem-64 499 208 416 32 1,155
n1-highmem-96 748 312 624 32 1,716
n2-highmem-32 307 128 256 32 723
n2-highmem-48 460 192 384 32 1,068
n2-highmem-64 614 256 512 32 1,414
n2-highmem-80 768 320 640 32 1,760
n2-highmem-96 921 384 768 32 2,105
n2-highmem-128 1,036 432 864 32 2,364

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

SAP has certified SAP HANA scale-up deployments with the Premium and Extreme service tiers of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes on all Compute Engine instances that are certified for SAP HANA.

SAP support for NetApp Volumes in scale-out deployments is limited to specific Compute Engine machine types, as noted in the table in Certified machine types for SAP HANA.

NetApp Volumes can be used instead of Persistent Disk volumes for the following SAP HANA volumes:

  • /hana/data
  • /hana/log
  • /hana/shared
  • /hanabackup

Your NetApp Volumes volumes must be in the same region as the Compute Engine instances that host your SAP HANA system.

Support for SAP HANA by NetApp Volumes is not available in every region that NetApp Volumes is available in.

You can use NetApp Volumes with SAP HANA in the following Google Cloud regions:

Region Location
europe-west4 Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe
us-east4 Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA
us-west2 Los Angeles, California, USA

If you are interested in running SAP HANA with NetApp Volumes in a Google Cloud region that is not listed in the preceding table, then contact Google Cloud sales.

For configuration requirements and recommendations, see the SAP HANA planning guide.

SAP indicates support for NetApp Volumes in the Certified and supported SAP HANA hardware directory.

Certified machine types for SAP HANA dynamic tiering

On Google Cloud, SAP HANA dynamic tiering must be installed on a dedicated Compute Engine instance. The following table shows the Compute Engine machine types that are certified by SAP for SAP HANA dynamic tiering on Google Cloud:

Warm store capacity Production certified machine types
512 GB
1,300 GB
5,000 GB
10,000 GB 		n1-highmem-8
n1-highmem-16
n1-highmem-32
n1-megamem-96
Custom configurations